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It is quite impossible to be happily married to another if one does not first get a divorce from oneself.
A farmer decided it was time to get married, so he saddled his mule and set off for the city to find himself a wife. In time, he met a woman he thought would make him a good wife and they were married.
After the ceremony they both climbed on to the mule and started off for the farm.
After a while, the mule stopped and refused to move, so the farmer dismounted and beat the mule with a hugh stick until it started to move again. "That's one," said the farmer.
Some miles later, the mule stopped again and once again the farmer dismounted ands beat the mule till it started moving again. "That's two," said the farmer.
A few miles later the mule stopped a third time. This time the farmer got down, got his wife down too, took out his pistol and shot the mule dead.
"That was a cruel and stupid thing to do" shouted his wife. "That was a good sturdy animal that could have been valuable. If I had known what a hard-hearted man you are, I would never have married you." And on and on she went.....
The farmer heard her out till she paused for breath. Then he said:"That's one"
The story goes that they lived happily ever after.
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